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Roasty Toasty Ghosty
#90: I'm Italian Now
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In which Lauren & Mattias delve into Mattias’ childhood and unlock some secrets. They review their recent movie night films, and dwell on dreams of a home gym and an acting career.
Content:
- Opening
- Solving Mattias’ problems
- Weekly check in
- Lauren’s dream home gym
- Movie on!
- Xanadu
- The Fifth Element
- Intermission
- Therapy session: Mattias’ childhood
- Wrap up
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Do you feel like it's about time to start?
Speaker 2I have feelings.
Speaker 1About starting time.
Speaker 2Possibly.
Speaker 1Okay, tell me your feelings.
Speaker 2My feelings are tired.
Speaker 1You feel tired about starting the episode.
Speaker 2Yes, it makes me tired, ah, mm-hmm.
Speaker 1So how can we change that? I don't know, you know we're going to open the energy drinks. Mm-hmm, you know we're going to open the energy drinks, so if you take a sip of that, maybe you will get some energy.
Speaker 2Or I'll get more tired.
Speaker 1Yeah, but I don't have any better suggestions. Okay, yeah, let's start.
Speaker 2Maybe Chairs, chairs.
Speaker 1Chairs.
Speaker 2That's what I was trying to say, but I couldn't think of a word.
Speaker 1Night.
Speaker 2Night Night night night.
Speaker 1This is going to be so good, and it's gone.
Speaker 2Yep, so good yeah. That's why I can't just take a sip of it.
Speaker 1Matias yeah.
Speaker 2Are you ready?
Speaker 1Not yet.
Speaker 2What Are you ready? Yes, alright.
Speaker 1Hello and welcome to Roasty Toasty Ghosty. My name is Matias and I'm Lauren. Yes, and you're just in front of me. That right so I'm looking at you I'm looking at you yeah, and do you know what? What? We're gonna be the listeners, best friends, for maybe an hour, maybe not we'll see yeah, let's say that all. Yeah, we're going to be your best friends and we will talk about stuff.
Speaker 2That's accurate.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, I would say that, yeah me too.
Speaker 2We're going to say some things for a while, and then you can move on with your lives yeah, pretend this never happened.
Speaker 1So my first question is how are you?
Speaker 2are you asking me or the listeners, because they're not going to answer?
Speaker 1I'm, I'm asking, or maybe you maybe they do answer like out loud and then someone hears them they're like I didn't ask true, I'm asking all of you oh, I'm only one person yeah, but the listeners as well okay but you have to answer for yourself okay, well and the listeners can answer for them.
Speaker 2Should we have like a moment of silence to give them a chance to answer?
Speaker 1They can comment.
Speaker 2I guess they could comment how are you doing? Yeah, tell us Is the question and I'm going to answer. Yeah, I'm doing all right.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2I'm doing fine.
Speaker 1Yeah, for once, I believe you.
Speaker 2I've been sick on and off and having trouble breathing and having all sorts of issues for a few weeks now. It feels like many weeks now and right now I'm feeling pretty good yeah. So we'll see what happens next week.
Speaker 1Very good.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1It's really good.
Speaker 2For now Matias how are you?
Speaker 1I'm doing better than you.
Speaker 2That's a good line.
Speaker 1Yes, I've been waiting All day.
Speaker 2All right Okay.
Speaker 1No, I'm good. I'm not that bad either.
Speaker 2I'm not mad.
Speaker 1Well, I'm always mad.
Speaker 2I know You're an angry person.
Speaker 1I am.
Speaker 2You need to let it out, yes. So what is it you're angry about?
Speaker 1Grr.
Speaker 2All right, let's talk about your Grr All right.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Let's talk about your childhood, okay.
Speaker 1My angry childhood.
Speaker 2Yeah, you seemed pretty frustrated as a child, so let's unpack that.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, is that for the second part?
Speaker 2Maybe Do you want to get into this.
Speaker 1We need to have therapy sessions I mean, you can ask me questions about my childhood and I I can try to answer are you gonna actually answer?
Speaker 2or you're just gonna give me, like your, you know, generic answers like no fine, everything's fine, it's good, it depends on the questions okay if I know the answer and can like elaborate, I'll do so.
Speaker 1That's a good word. Yeah, good one. Thank you you're welcome.
Speaker 2Okay, today we're going to solve matthias's problems.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, so uh but first this going to be a thing.
Speaker 2Like last week we Well. Last week we revealed, we unveiled your issues and today we're going to solve them. Okay so maybe if she said that we're going to go for a spiritual turn in the podcast, maybe it was just for this one.
Speaker 1Yeah, in the next episode, next episode, you can do it for me. Okay, yeah, okay, you can unlock my past. I just want you to keep a copy of your questions and send them to me.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm going to look them up, yeah yeah, keep a copy. It sounds like I need them on paper oh, I can do that too yeah, sure, I can write things now, okay, uh, first, matias, we need to go through the boring part okay, yeah, our lives, our lives what have we been up to this week? What did we do last weekend? Okay I can answer no. No, I need to let you talk I need to back off, yeah it's your turn can you be quiet for a few minutes?
Speaker 1I would love to okay, so yeah, already, you already failed. Um, last week, and oh yeah, that's when we did the interview and all on Saturday, and then later that evening we had live Mad Libs, mm-hmm, and we were drunk.
Speaker 2We were yeah.
Speaker 1Your sister couldn't really attend. That that's too bad. I like when she's one of the word givers.
Speaker 2Viewers what she's a viewer.
Speaker 1Viewer oh yeah, Participant yeah. What? No, I heard beavers.
Speaker 2She's one of the beavers. Our viewers on Twitch are called beavers. Why?
Speaker 1because that's what matias named them okay, yeah, this was too bad that she couldn't be with us um it's too bad that you came up with the name. Yeah, that's too bad too, actually too bad too too bad too it went well. I mean your life partner did well.
Speaker 2He tried at least this time yeah, so it was still fun.
Speaker 1Yeah, I slept on the couch here and you did Yep, and then on Sunday it was your daughter's birthday.
Speaker 2That's right.
Speaker 1Yes, so what we did and what to do. What we did, no, what, yeah. What did we do on Sunday, when your daughter had her birthday?
Speaker 2What did we do?
Speaker 1We went and got waffles. Yeah, it was good, I liked the waffles. Oh, you didn't have waffles.
Speaker 2No, I didn't have any waffles.
Speaker 1No, did you just have water?
Speaker 2I just had coffee. Coffee, I had one coffee.
Speaker 1Yeah, you just have water. I just had coffee, coffee and one coffee.
Speaker 2Yeah, that was enough, okay, yeah, um but it was still fun.
Speaker 1It was fun, it was nice. Yeah, we went for a walk really nice weather yes, it was a nice walk it was um, yeah, so that was good, um, and she got to open her presents from us there. Oh, yeah, yeah, and your life partner is now regretting that.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay. So my daughter is super into products as in, like body sprays and creams and anything in that department, and he got one spray that has a very strong vanilla scent. Every time she walks through the apartment it smells like vanilla, you can tell. And you walk into her room and it smells like perfume shop.
Speaker 1Yeah, she can't sneak, no Anymore.
Speaker 2No, I don't know you always smell her scent, yeah, her trail.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Walk into a room. Oh, she's been in here. Yeah, she also sprayed me in the face with it while we were at the waffle place. Oh, because she sprayed it and we were sitting outside and the wind blew it while we were at the waffle place oh, because she sprayed it and we were sitting outside and the wind blew it on me and I was like um, but that was sunday.
Speaker 1I don't know. Did anything else happen on sunday?
Speaker 2after that you went home yes, you got a ride home. That was when I went for my super bike ride. Wow, we saw the rainbow.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2I went like 12 kilometers.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, crazy, that was it.
Speaker 1I also went far.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm, you took a walk though.
Speaker 1Yes, I also saw a rainbow.
Speaker 2You took a picture of the rainbow and it was way nicer than mine.
Speaker 1I never take good pictures.
Speaker 2It was a nice picture.
Speaker 1Yeah, that one was nice.
Speaker 2Yeah, you got like the whole thing. I had clouds in my way.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, it was blocking and I really liked that you could see where it went down, yeah so cool.
Speaker 2And then on Monday I had to take care of my daughter because she had a really bad headache. Yeah, that's what happened.
Speaker 1Yes, and your boss wasn't happy.
Speaker 2Well, no, because we're in the middle of our highest season and there's a ton to do and I am his best team player at the moment. So, yeah, he didn't like that.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2But I was there for the rest of the week. And there was overtime on Monday, tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaker 1I took them all.
Speaker 2I could only do Tuesday and Wednesday, yeah, but.
Speaker 1I did do that. I was there on Monday and I worked and took the overtime. Yeah, yeah, that's my Monday.
Speaker 2And Tuesday and Wednesday I also did the overtime.
Speaker 1Me too.
Speaker 2On Thursday there was no overtime, so we went to the gym, yes, and we did well. We did, we did, you know what would be really cool.
Speaker 1I don't know.
Speaker 2Did you think about it for a minute? No, I was. What would be really cool, I don't know. Did you think about it for a minute no. I was, that would be really cool.
Speaker 1I was expecting you to say what.
Speaker 2Oh, I was looking for a response.
Speaker 1Yeah, I did respond.
Speaker 2Yes, you don't know, it would be really cool to have a house first of all.
Speaker 1Okay. But if I could, you know, what would also be cool what to have like a personal jet that would be cool, is that?
Speaker 2or are you comparing? Like that's equally as impossible? Or a helicopter yeah, sure, but I want my house to have a basement so I can put like a gym down there. Okay, yeah. Like my own, with like the weights, and maybe a treadmill will be cool. Yeah, and a bike. That's funny. Is it really that funny?
Speaker 1No, not really Okay.
Speaker 2Would you join my gym?
Speaker 1if that ever happened, do I have to pay to?
Speaker 2You just have to blip your card. Yeah, you don't have to pay for it, you just blip it.
Speaker 1Okay, just for the fun. Yeah, I just have to blip it.
Speaker 2You have to blip it. What?
Speaker 1No, it just sounded weird.
Speaker 2Yeah For the thrill of blipping.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I want a monitor that says welcome Matthias.
Speaker 2Yeah, of course, and then we're going to hook you up to a system so that it shows your heart rate and all of your stats.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2You have to walk in and you blip your card, you take your weight and then it'll show everything and it'll continue showing your stats while you're working out.
Speaker 1You should start a gym and have all of those. Yeah.
Speaker 2You can rent out a Fitbit or something.
Speaker 1Yeah, if someone dies, will it blink red or something.
Speaker 2If you're having a heart attack and should probably get off the machines, then yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1Cool, very cool. That's a plan.
Speaker 2For when I get a house.
Speaker 1For the future, yeah, cool.
Speaker 2Anyway.
Speaker 1Oh yeah.
Speaker 2Did you have something you were going to say?
Speaker 1About the days.
Speaker 2Or the gym or anything.
Speaker 1About your fantasy gym right uh, I like the idea. It's a very cool idea yeah and I would join it, would I have to pay? Yes okay, can I have like a discount at least? Yeah, yeah, you get a discount good it's. It's not that expensive either no so it's even cheaper yeah, the discount, yeah, and I wouldn't be surprised if I have to help you buy the stuff that's the price okay, yeah, and then it's for life. Oh.
Speaker 2You don't have to renew your membership.
Speaker 1Oh, okay, cool.
Speaker 2If you help fund it.
Speaker 1So are you going to have other people there too? No, that's good, because I don't like people.
Speaker 2It's our gym and maybe relatives.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2Like the people residing in the house, could use the gym.
Speaker 1Even the kids. They have to be supervised if they're gonna go in there yeah regardless of their age okay, yeah, so, even if they are like 30 no, no, as minors they have to be supervised like if they're they are 30 and just want to borrow your gym stuff you're going to.
Speaker 2I just want him to go on the treadmill for 10 minutes. Mom, you don't need to sit here and watch me.
Speaker 1I'm going to watch you.
Speaker 2So if we have a treadmill and a bike, do we have to get two of each, or does one of us have to do treadmill and one of us does the bike?
Speaker 1I guess that's an option. It depends on and we'd have to do treadmill and one of us does the bike. I guess that's an option.
Speaker 2It depends on, and we'd have to switch.
Speaker 1Yeah of course, yeah, that works Also the thing where you do the sit-ups.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, one of those benches.
Speaker 1Yeah, An adjustable bench thing too.
Speaker 2One of those and some free weights.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2With a whole bunch of discs Yoga stuff too One of those and some free weights. Yes, with a whole bunch of discs, yoga stuff too. Okay, so we can do yoga.
Speaker 1I'm up for that.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, it's probably easier too if we're in our own personal space and you don't have other people watching you. I hate that about the gym.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2Feeling like other people are watching.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And we can play the music that we want to listen to.
Speaker 1Yeah, true, this is going to be really good. What's the point?
Speaker 2What's the point in doing anything that's on repeat?
Speaker 1Yeah, that's so funny. Every time we went to the gym the old gym that song was playing. That was when we didn't care that much actually about going to the gym. We just went there because we had the cards. We didn't really do much there.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1Not as much as we hoped for.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1At least one time we just sat there and talked, for we just sat there and talked the entire time. Yeah.
Speaker 2Then we were like I think we're done here. Yeah, I'm trying to think of what else I like to do at the gym. I know that I like the rowing machines and yeah, oh, those are cool, that could be doable. But I was also thinking about the floor climber thing. Oh yeah, and well, I think I could probably survive without that.
Speaker 1I think so too.
Speaker 2It's really good it is but no.
Speaker 1Difficult. I also like the cross trainer thing.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, our gym feels like it's getting cramped. Yeah, I don't think I'm going to have the biggest room for this.
Speaker 1No, and it feels like it's mostly cardio.
Speaker 2Well, I mean, if you have the weight, then it's like half and half.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So I think we need to stick with just the two cardios and the adjustable weight machine and the free weights.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And the yoga corner. Yeah, sounds good, yeah sounds good, that's how our good yeah sounds good, that's how we're doing yeah.
Speaker 1Should we move on?
Speaker 2Yeah. I think we ran straight into the woods with this one. We got very off topic.
Speaker 1Yes, so let's move on now.
Speaker 2Let's do that. So today is August 16th yeah, it's Friday, and we watched movies.
Speaker 1Mm-hmm.
Speaker 2We watched.
Speaker 1Xanadu.
Speaker 2Xanadu and the Fifth Element. Yeah, and we watched Xanadu first, so you get to tell me about that.
Speaker 1Okay, this is a movie. It's a what?
Speaker 2I love that first line. This was a movie.
Speaker 1Yeah, this was a movie, also the end. I like that you laugh into the can. You should always have the can in your mouth. Yeah, we're not tired, you're like a four-year-old. Okay so this movie is about a guy we're never finishing this episode.
Speaker 1No, no, no, no, but I'll try. So this movie is about a guy. He's a pretty good drawer. No, he's good at drawing. He's an art. Can you shut up? I'm talking here, sorry, he's an artist. You shut up? I'm talking here, sorry, he's an artist, yeah, a painter. He does like a drawing on a paper and then he don't like it and just rips it apart and throws the pieces out the window and they fly away far, the end, very far, and then they wake up a wall of painted women. I guess they come to life.
Speaker 1One of those women is Olivia Newton-John. She meets the guy and gives him a kiss. Then he falls in love and she disappears and he tries to find her. And then he meets Gene Kelly, who's playing the flute. There are some songs, and some of those songs they sing. Oh yeah, they want to start like a club. And Gene Kelly, who's an old man in this movie, he wants it to be like 1945-ish, and the younger guy played by Michael Beck, he wants it to be like 1980 style. They mix the two styles and that's their plan. And there are other stuff happening too. Was that good? Yeah, what did I miss?
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1I missed no.
Speaker 2No.
Speaker 1So this movie is kind of weird, but still kind of interesting. I didn't hate it. It's not my favorite, but it's okay. I would probably say a little bit more than average, though, so it's good. Do you have anything to say about this movie?
Speaker 2It was an interesting movie. There were a lot of special effects. Yeah, yeah, it was. I really I don't know. It was a movie we did watch it. It was interesting, Maybe not the easiest to follow during some parts, but I did recognize one of the songs at least.
Speaker 1Me too. I don't think we recognize the same, but I recognize the song where Gene Kelly was changing outfits and trying new outfits.
Speaker 2Yeah that song, wasn't there another one?
Speaker 1Xanadu, I recognize that one too Okay.
Speaker 2I don't know the title to the one that I recognized, but it was one of the earlier ones, I think.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, did you say your feelings on the movie?
Speaker 1I said that I liked it. It was good. It was above average for me.
Speaker 2All right good.
Speaker 1And how would you say?
Speaker 2I'm gonna say average. Okay yeah, I'm bringing it a little bit lower.
Speaker 1Yeah, this was the last theatrical movie for Gene Kelly. No, that's kind of sad.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1I really like him.
Speaker 2He's good.
Speaker 1The movies we've seen. I haven't hated anyone Any of them, any of them, any of them. Yet.
Speaker 2Yeah, good, anyway, yeah, next of them, any of them yet? Yeah, go ahead, anyway next.
Speaker 1Okay, the next movie was the Fifth Element.
Speaker 2Yeah, and I'm going to tell you about that. So this is a movie with Bruce Willis and there are aliens and some kind of prophecy, right? Mm-hmm yes, and some kind of prophecy right. There's the five elements and the four original elements had to be hidden somewhere else, yeah, or else because they were in danger yeah, they had like rocks, or yeah they were in stone form. Yeah, have four elements and they need the fifth one, which happens to be a girl. Yeah, yeah. So what is it? Earth, wind, fire.
Speaker 1Water.
Speaker 2Water girl.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Okay, that's clear now.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And so the girl comes along, falls into his, into his life, pretty much almost falls on top of him and uh, so he's stuck with her and there's a bad guy who, um, is there, yeah and they're looking.
Speaker 1There's a bad guy who's absent. He doesn't appear in the movie.
Speaker 2Wait, no, hold on. So the bad guy also wants to find the rocks.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And Bruce Willis and the girl have to find the rocks too, and there are aliens attacking.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2And that's the situation he got himself into.
Speaker 1Yeah, and what did he do for a living?
Speaker 2He was a taxi driver.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Also Chris Tucker shows up as a DJ.
Speaker 1There is a few recognizable people in this movie.
Speaker 2There was the guy from the Medallion.
Speaker 1Yes as well, lee Evans.
Speaker 2And a guy from Shanghai Nights.
Speaker 1Yeah, kim Chan.
Speaker 2I knew that.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Off the top of my head.
Speaker 1But the guy from Striking Distance with Bruce Willis.
Speaker 2Sirius Black.
Speaker 1Yeah, was in this movie Gary Oldman.
Speaker 2And Bilbo Baggins.
Speaker 1Yes, the Hobbit version no. Lord of the Rings Lord of the Rings version yes, ian Hall.
Speaker 2Yeah, so quite the cast.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Very interesting yeah. Kind of all over the place, but still cool. Yeah, so you liked it, I did. I like this movie. Yeah, I'm enjoying Bruce Willis movies Me too, so far. Yeah, I'm enjoying. Bruce Willis movies, me too, so far.
Speaker 1Yeah, I also like this one. It has some humor in it, mm-hmm and some action. There was also a guy who's called Tim Tiny Lister. I think he's called Tiny Because he's the guy who was playing the president.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1I've seen him in other movies. He's in a movie with Dolph Lundgren. I just have to show off.
Speaker 2You are very nerdy.
Speaker 1This is a movie I haven't seen that many times, though.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1But I did make a video so I had to refresh my memory, so I had to watch this before making the video.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1So I could use the best clips for the video.
Speaker 2Okay, okay, on that note, would you like to take a break?
Speaker 1Yeah, we can take a break.
Speaker 2All right, we'll take a break and we'll be right back. Yeah.
Speaker 1Later, we'll be right back later. Right back later Okay goodbye, okay, bye-bye, and now we're back.
Speaker 2To part two.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah. We're not past it yet, so Nope, not past part two, but we just started right now part two of this episode. Yeah, we're past part one, yeah.
Speaker 1Not as fun, but it's the truth.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I'm all about the truth. I'm sorry for interrupting you.
Speaker 2I was saying something.
Speaker 1Yeah, please say that again.
Speaker 2Well, I don't know.
Speaker 1I'm sorry.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's your fault.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2I'm upset.
Speaker 1Sure.
Speaker 2Okay, so let's see what are we doing today. Last week we talked to our good friend the medium, manali and Jess, and we got to break you open just a little bit.
Speaker 1Yeah, just a little crack.
Speaker 2A little bit, yeah, just a little crack A little bit, and um, just gave me a little crack. Yes, you got some crack. Yeah, and on episodes now and then, we like to get to know each other a bit better. Yeah each other a bit better. So I'm thinking, since we've brought your life, your family history and such a bit to the surface, I would like to dive a little bit deeper.
Speaker 1Okay, so we're stuck in the past.
Speaker 2We're stuck in the past. This is the spiritual episode, part two. We're going to have a therapy session.
Speaker 1So this is Mattias' past part two.
Speaker 2Yes, mattias' past part two.
Speaker 1Yep.
Speaker 2Therapy session, which is what we're calling this.
Speaker 1Yeah, and I will answer truthfully, truthfully.
Speaker 2Wow, that's a difficult word yeah, and there's quite a bit here, so let's see what we can get out of you yeah, I will try to you know elaborate okay. So when trying to open someone up about their childhood through questions, it's important to ask in a way that feels natural and non-intrusive.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2So I'm going to try to be gentle here.
Speaker 1You're going to try to be natural.
Speaker 2Natural.
Speaker 1Wow.
Speaker 2Gentle non-intrusive. Out on a limb If tears happen, then so be it but whatever, Try not to cry though. I'll try not to cry. Here are some thoughtful, open-ended questions that can help guide this conversation, so I'm going to start off with a general background, okay, so what was your hometown like when you were growing up?
Speaker 1I don't even know what my hometown I guess it's this town we're in right now. I didn't go to school here, but this is where I, you know, we did all the shopping and I went to. So it's a very small town but has a couple stores, but it has a couple stores and I don't really know what to answer more on this question.
Speaker 2I kind of need some direction as well. So why don't you consider your school town to be your hometown?
Speaker 1Because I just went to school there.
Speaker 2That was it.
Speaker 1Yeah, I did have friends there, but I didn't really go there much on my free time. Okay, so that's why I consider this town more of a hometown.
Speaker 2Okay, what are some of your earliest memories?
Speaker 1One of my earliest memories. It's me sitting in a police car.
Speaker 2An actual one. Yes, okay.
Speaker 1Because my parents were drunk and my dad got upset and just left. My mom was also upset and didn't know where he went, so police was called. I must have been like three or four at that time and I remember that I got to sit in a police car in the back seat and it was kind of cool. You know the radio they have and all that. I wonder if maybe even my grandma was there actually because she was living yeah, she was across from you, yeah, so she probably was involved in some way.
Speaker 1Yeah, I could always turn to my grandma. You know, when I didn't really want to talk to my parents, I could talk to my grandma. She was always understanding, so she was the first person I would talk to if I had problems, and that's it. But that memory is like, you know.
Speaker 2I can imagine it's probably very vivid.
Speaker 1Yes, Since it was a big deal.
Speaker 2Yeah, a lot was happening and yeah, how would you describe your family dynamics when you were a child? What was your family like?
Speaker 1My dad was usually very calm and quiet, unless he got drunk.
Speaker 2Did that happen a lot. Sorry, I'm just going to throw out.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's good. Those are the questions I want. I don't know if it was a lot. I don't think so. Sometimes it was more when I grew up, maybe a little bit more. Now he doesn't drink at all.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1And the same for my mom. But I mean, I grew up to be a normal person. What was the question? Your family dynamic oh yeah, yes, so my dad was usually pretty calm and my mom was the more angry person, not always, but when she got really angry, she got really angry. You wouldn't really want to talk her angry, if you understand what I'm trying to say.
Speaker 2Yeah, you really tried to avoid conflict with her, yes, so wait, do you mean if you just have issues with her, you can't talk to her about it, but if you had issues somewhere else in your life, would you be able to talk to her about that?
Speaker 1That's probably why I didn't talk to her about that, because I didn't want to make her upset and maybe make her angry.
Speaker 2Even if it has nothing to do with her.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1But I mean, that's what I'm trying to say. Maybe that's just in my head, Maybe she would have been really helpful, but what if she wouldn't be?
Speaker 2helpful yeah, I guess.
Speaker 1So that's probably just my fear of her being angry instead.
Speaker 2And that's why it was easier to talk to my grandma. Okay, do you think that your personality is more like your dad or your mom.
Speaker 1I mean, it really is a mixture of both. When it comes to me being calm, because I can be that, it feels more like my dad, and when I get really angry, I feel like my mom. But yeah, I'm not really like her. Yeah, I would probably say I'm more like my dad, though, but I still like my mom's humor because she got her humor from my grandma, and my grandma is also a good source for my comedy, or, yeah, whatever you want to call it maybe you already touched on this a bit, but what kind of relationship did you have with your parents and siblings?
Speaker 1oh yeah, I didn't even talk about my sibling yes uh, okay, so my sister was the closest and I mean we fought a bit when we were younger. She was like three years older, what?
Speaker 2I was being dumb for a minute, I was like. But our sisters are the same age and my sister is five years older than me yeah it was like all right, you're not the same age as me, so that's the difference.
Speaker 1Okay, okay, sorry yeah I'm being dumb, yes so yeah, I mean we could get into fights, but uh, nothing like long lasting. No, I think we had a good. We still have a good. I mean now we never fight, never I. I don't think my sister has been mad at me at all for like 15 years or longer, so that's good.
Speaker 2Or 50. 50 years For at least 50 years.
Speaker 1Yeah, so she's never been mad at me.
Speaker 2We used to get in arguments, but she's never been mad at me as I said, my parents.
Speaker 1So we already said I, but your relationship with your parents.
Speaker 2You mentioned how they can be. Uh, I guess your relationship with your mom is a little iffy right now or was, or whatever I mean we had a good relationship.
Speaker 1She is very protective, though she was always worried that I would get hurt, and she's very loving and all. It's just sometimes when she get mad, that's when it's scary, or was scary. Now I can turn it off just ignoring it. Yeah, whatever, okay, mom I can just go out or something, because it's not often she's mad at me, she's probably just mad at like, a lunchbox or something. What?
Speaker 2Has that happened?
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Oh my God, please tell me.
Speaker 1You know, if she takes out the lunchbox from her bag and it gets stuck in the handle thing or something she's like and just throw it.
Speaker 2Easily frustrated.
Speaker 1Yeah, and often after work day.
Speaker 2Oh well, I get that. What about your dad? What's your relationship like with your dad? Or was or is, oh yeah, whatever it was good.
Speaker 1It was good and, like I said I, the only problem I had with him was when he was drunk.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And he doesn't drink much anymore, so that's good. It was more of when he stopped working. That was like the worst time for him, okay, or was about to stop working.
Speaker 2When he retired.
Speaker 1When he retired? Yeah, because I think that he, his bosses told him that he could stay after 65.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1And he did that because he felt like he could work more. But then at some point he got a talk with his bosses that they couldn't keep him there because people were complaining that he shouldn't be there after 65, since he should be retired. So they let him go. But he felt like he could work still and that was a hard time for him, I think, because he felt like it was like a betrayal from his colleagues. And that's when it was the worst with his drinking. That was like every day. It was a tough time for him. But uh, he's better now he's retired, now he's at peace with that. Now good.
Speaker 2What was school like for you and did you enjoy it?
Speaker 1uh, my school it was pretty good. Actually I had friends. One friend I had like the entire time from first class to like the last it wasn't me? No, it wasn't you, because I hadn't met you yet it should have been me okay, yeah, no, it was another guy. Another guy Like you're a guy.
Childhood Friendships and Movie Memories
Speaker 1Some other guy no, it was a guy, okay. But I had other friends who kind of got cool, one of the you know cooler guys who started smoking and all that, so, yeah, yeah, I wasn't really friends with him anymore, and it's too bad, though, because he was a really fun guy. I had one guy who I think he felt he was too good for me, and the other guy who he also kind of just left us for the cooler people. And then we had another friend who was a nerd, a real nerd, and I liked him so much but he was too smart for us so he had to hang out with the other smart people.
Speaker 1No, no, no, it wasn't like that. Well, kind of, but he switched schools. He got into a smart people smarter school yeah, and so it was. Uh, just us two idiots left. So yeah, we weren't very good at um school. We barely passed. I say weak, as he and I was so alike, so I got, you know like one thing better than him. So I feel a little bit better. I'm not the worst.
Speaker 2You mean like one grade better. Yeah.
Speaker 1I didn't really try to get a higher grade either.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1I just wanted to pass.
Speaker 2Yeah, you did the minimum.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2The question is who were your close friends growing up? But you pretty much already touched on that.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2But what did you guys like to do together?
Speaker 1Watch movies.
Speaker 2Yay.
Speaker 1Yeah, that's really. I mean, at that time we were playing a lot, you know, outside as well.
Speaker 2Did you guys also have movie night?
Speaker 1Not as often as we have okay like not once a week, but occasionally we could have. They always got to borrow movies from me because I had like all the jackie chan movies and other movies as well. So if they wanted a movie I brought it with me and did.
Speaker 2Did they return them?
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Okay, you made sure that they returned them.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, so yeah.
Speaker 2Otherwise, I've noticed that's kind of a theme, At least since I've moved out here if you let someone borrow something, it's gone. Oh, you like never get it back.
Speaker 1Oh, really Pretty much. No, I would never do that.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Have I borrowed something from you and I haven't returned it? I don't think so no because I think I get most of this.
Speaker 2Yeah, you don't usually borrow things from me.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2I borrow things from you.
Speaker 1You do.
Speaker 2Sometimes Like the projector. Oh, yeah, and then it stayed here forever, sometimes Like the projector.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, and then it stayed here forever. Yeah, they did borrow movies from me and they returned them.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1And this was the VHS years.
Speaker 2Yeah, okay, so very cool. What else did you guys do?
Speaker 1My best friend, the one I stuck with. He was into like games and Video games Video games and computer games and I wasn't really into that. There was one time I was at his place and he had a video game. I think it was the Nintendo and it was James Bond Goldeneye.
Speaker 2Oh, the N64 game yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, and he wanted to play that and I sucked at that. So I let him and his brothers play. And their father went into the room and saw me watching them play and he's like what, what the heck is this? Why don't you let him play? And I'm like I don't want to play.
Speaker 2I I'm, I just want to watch this the friend with like a ton of brothers and then the one sister yeah, he had two brothers and then one smaller sister.
Speaker 1I've talked about them, yep, yep yep, anything else. No.
Speaker 2All right. What did a typical day look like for you when you were young?
Speaker 1I think it was mostly like going to school and staying there, trying to survive school and getting home maybe talk to my grandma and I don't like to say but I drank a lot of soda and that kind of ruined my life ruined your life okay did you ever get into any kind of sports or anything? No, not really my parents didn't really want me to. All right, they had to drive stuff like that.
Speaker 2Boring, yeah. So other than watching movies, what else did you enjoy doing?
Speaker 1I was pretending to be Jackie Chan. I did many falls. It's weird that I never broke anything. I guess I was good at it, not as clumsy as Jackie is.
Speaker 2Those are some rough words there, yeah.
Speaker 1But yeah, that was my childhood. Really, Jackie was my number one hero.
Speaker 2What were your favorite family traditions or holidays as a child?
Speaker 1favorite family traditions or holidays. As a child Traditions, I'm thinking did we have traditions. I mean we did fish the crayfish every year and that was fun to go down to the creek, also very wet, you know, it was often raining, but that was good because that's when the crayfish was.
Speaker 2When they come out.
Speaker 1Yeah, we didn't go to that many places, but I remember us renting like an RV.
Speaker 2A motorhome.
Speaker 1Okay.
Speaker 2I don't know what RV stands for.
Speaker 1No but.
Speaker 2But it is a motorhome.
Speaker 1Okay, it's a drivable camper. Yeah, and I like that, but we only did that for like one time, but it was nice.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Really nice to sleep in that.
Speaker 2How did you celebrate birthdays?
Speaker 1At home eating cake, getting presents.
Speaker 2Did you ever get like a birthday party?
Speaker 1If I had birthday parties, it wasn't big ones.
Speaker 2It wasn't that exciting.
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2Okay. Were there any significant challenges or difficulties you faced as a child?
Speaker 1I don't know. I guess I had like bullies at school. But I mean, I say bullies, but when I hear about other people's experiences with bullies, I don't really know if I could call them bullies, because they weren't that bad they were just they were really rough, though it's not like I got beaten up that much.
Speaker 2Your experience is still valid. Oh, okay despite other people's experiences yeah you know what I mean by that yes okay, because I mean I do the same thing that you're doing now like especially with, like my health and my pain and stuff, like yeah, I'm hurting, but you know, other people have had it worse. That doesn't mean that doesn't take away the fact that I am hurting, like yeah, I'm having trouble breathing, but it's not like I'm not turning blue or anything.
Speaker 1No, it just feels kind of I don't know if I would say disrespectful to the people who actually had you know way worse than I had. Yeah, for me to say that, oh, I had such a troubled childhood because I had a bully who hit me once. And then here's someone who said who gets you know spit in the face every day and like that, that's way worse than what I went through.
Speaker 2I get what you're saying.
Speaker 1Yeah, but it's still valid.
Speaker 2Did you get hit?
Speaker 1I did.
Speaker 2Okay, why wouldn't people make fun of you? I'm Italian now.
Speaker 1Why wouldn't people make fun of you? I'm Italian now. Why would people?
Speaker 2make a fun of you. Why?
Speaker 1Why would people?
Speaker 2make a fun of you.
Speaker 1Make a fun of me.
Speaker 2I'm trying to ask a serious question and it's not coming out in a serious way. I am screwing it up.
Speaker 1I was very nerdy. Some people don't like people like that, so I guess they thought they could successfully intimidate us nerdier guys, and I really don't know why.
Speaker 2Just stupid people.
Speaker 1Who knows why people bullied to begin with? No, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2I never understood it no is there a moment from your childhood that you feel shaped, who you are today?
Speaker 1of course, the first time I ever saw Jackie Chan that's what I was thinking yeah, that really shaped my interest in movies and everything.
Speaker 2And that's just kind of who you are today.
Speaker 1Yeah, my being.
Speaker 2Yeah, that really is. But before Jackie Chan came into your life, you already loved movies right, I did, I did, that's just something that's been a constant throughout your life.
Speaker 1Yes, yes that's, that's it. I really I have always loved movies, but I don't think I was thinking about making movies as much before jackie, because, you know, in jackie's movies you get to see at the end the glimpse behind the scenes, and that's, that's what piqued my interest in, you know, making movies oh, I did have another question what's the first movie you remember seeing before Jackie? The first movie I remember seeing at all you know, at home on video.
Speaker 2Yeah, like ever cinema or at home.
Speaker 1I know, I think I know the cinema one, but the first I ever saw because I know I saw movies at home first it must have been like some cartoon Disney, yeah, probably. I mean the one that really made a big impression on me is Lion King. That might be one of the first ones I actually remember and that was kind of dramatic and still fun. Yeah okay, is that a good answer?
Speaker 2I like your answer. So, yes, can you share a happy memory from your childhood that stands out to you? We've talked a lot about less than happy memories, but maybe we can think of something more positive.
Speaker 1Oh, I remember this was after I became a Jackie Chan fan.
Speaker 2Would you say after Okay, yep.
Speaker 1So I had seen a few of Jackie's movies and I really enjoyed them. And one day we went to the store and they had big boxes of movies and VHS and I went to that box and saw all the movies and I found like at least like seven or eight different Jackie Chan movies that I had never seen before, and all of them there and I was so happy. That must have been like the happiest time in my life. I think I had seen one of them actually, or two.
Speaker 2But you didn't have them. No, okay.
Speaker 1We only rented them before that. So I bought. Well, I didn't buy them. I told my mom to buy them.
Speaker 2You told her to. Yeah, okay, she had to.
Speaker 1I mean, I was a big fan. Yeah, everything was so perfect that day. I was so happy. You know that summer smell that's so perfect, mm-hmm, like when you open a window. That's what the day was for me. It's difficult to explain, but it felt so good. That's how much of a nerd I am. I can give you a list of all the movies I bought that day.
Speaker 2Okay, okay. What's something from your childhood that you miss?
Speaker 1I mean, I do miss my friend that lived close to me. He was also fun, but he moved too soon, you know, and after he moved we never really talked because he was a year older than me.
Speaker 2Okay, so you know he's too good for you.
Speaker 1Yeah, he stuck to his age group.
Speaker 2Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1And yeah, that's it. We never really talked after that. Oh yeah, so I do miss him and would like to know what he's doing today.
Speaker 2Later today. Yes, what are you doing today?
Speaker 1Yeah, in like seven hours. I'm going to call him. I'm going to find him.
Speaker 2You're going to spend the rest of the night trying to find him. Then you're going to call him and be like what are you doing? What are you doing later?
Speaker 1Remember me.
Speaker 2Remember me, let's hang out. Do, do, do, do, do. When you were a child, what did you dream of becoming when you grew up?
Speaker 1Yeah, that would have been like a movie star. That was my absolute, my top dream.
Speaker 2Do you remember what you wanted to do before Jackie?
Speaker 1I think I actually wanted to be an actor.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Like I said, I never thought about behind the cameras. Do you think you could still be an actor? Okay, like I said, I never thought about behind the cameras.
Speaker 2Do you think you could still be an actor?
Speaker 1No.
Speaker 2No, okay.
Speaker 1I don't think I have the talent for that.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1Do you think so?
Speaker 2I don't know, I haven't tested. No, no, we haven't had a good skit or anything, no Idea.
Speaker 1I don't think I would come across as natural.
Speaker 2Okay.
Speaker 1But who knows, maybe, maybe We'll see.
Speaker 2Did your childhood aspirations change as you got older?
Speaker 1How do you mean?
Speaker 2Your dreams, my dreams, yeah.
Speaker 1Yes, Like I don't want to be an actor. Okay, no. Now my dream is still want to work with movies, but I want to be behind the camera. I'd rather be a director or editor.
Speaker 2That would be cool.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2Well, how do you feel after all of this?
Speaker 1I feel like I'm an open book.
Speaker 2All right.
Speaker 1No, not really, but I feel good. I think I can keep most of it.
Speaker 2You got a lot out.
Speaker 1I did.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Are you happy with your answers?
Speaker 2I am. Are you happy with your answers?
Speaker 1Yeah, most of them.
Speaker 2Yeah, you did pretty good. I think yeah, but you got a. Your answers, yeah, most of them. Yeah, you did pretty good I think, yeah, but you got a lot off your chest. You feel Like you can breathe a little bit.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2You talked about your problems a bit here, mm-hmm, yeah, good, good, good, good, good. So what Is it my turn next week?
Speaker 1If you want to.
Speaker 2Oh boy Okay.
Speaker 1Well.
Speaker 2I let you talk today.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2So I did my part.
Speaker 1Yeah, you did Mm-hmm Very good. I'm proud of you.
Speaker 2Thank you, we're both improving.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2With that, would you like to wrap this up?
Speaker 1Yeah, I think it's about time.
Speaker 2This is number 90.
Speaker 1Wow.
Speaker 2So that's 10 episodes until 100.
Speaker 1Crazy.
Speaker 2Did we say 95?
Speaker 1Yeah, 95.
Speaker 2That's when we reveal what we're doing for number 100.
Speaker 1Yeah.
Speaker 2All right, then we'll wrap this up. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1Should I do the exit as well?
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 1That would be cool.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Speaker 1Really cool. Please do that, I dare you.
Speaker 2I dare you.
Speaker 1Okay, next Live Mad Libs is Saturday, september 7th, and it's hopefully fun. It's going to be even more fun if more people could join us. So please join us there and maybe write about yourself or something Maybe not Just write words actually, when you're there, and we will try to be as entertaining as we can be. I think that's all, or do you want to say something?
Speaker 2I think you covered about everything. That was really good.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm that good you are. Yeah, I've been talking about everything, thank you, that was really good.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm that good you are yeah.
Speaker 1I've been talking about my childhood, that I feel like I can now cover it all, so see you next week and have a good one.
Speaker 2Be good. All right, thank you. Yeah, goodbye.
Speaker 1Bye-bye.